beach front home owners north of sydney australia have been ordered to evacuate with their houses in danger of collapsing into the sea severe storms have whipped up waves that have washed away parts of the coast some residents are hoping to save their homes by propping them up with concrete pylons. in parts of china it's been raining almost continuously since the end of june whole regions are along the 6000 kilometer yangtze river are under water dozens of people have been killed and businesses left completely devastated. chinese social media footage offers an unfiltered look at the devastating floods and tires cities along the young sea are practically drowning heavy rains have caused china's longest rivet's who have a flow nearly 20000000 people are believed to be affected in danger of losing their livelihoods like this man who fears his tea harvest has been destroyed you know. we're trying to dry some of the harvest in order to save it but we have to throw away most of it. meanwhile china's state broadcaster c.c.t.v. is mainly showing images of heroic rescue efforts in helmand we'

beachfront home owners north of sydney australia have been ordered to evacuate with their houses in danger of collapsing into the sea severe storms have whipped up waves which have washed away parts of the coast some residents are hoping to save their homes by probyn them up with concrete pylons. u.s. civil rights icon and democratic congressman john lewis has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer he was 80 years old lewis was the last survivor of the prominent 960 civil rights activists led by martin luther king jr sought to end segregation in the country. syria is preparing to hold a parliamentary vote this sunday as president bashar al assad marks 20 years and power but many syrians outside the country including millions of refugees will not be able to take part in the polls we caught up with 2 syrian refugees in berlin who reflect on what assad's grip on power has meant for them. mahmud has been living in germany for 5 years after fleeing from syria and the regime that. tain been tortured. she believes president bashar assad should not have been allowed to take over from his fathe

sydney australia been ordered to evacuate with their houses in danger of collapsing into the sea severe storms have whipped up waves that have washed away parts of the coast some residents are hoping to save their homes by propping them up with concrete pylons. the u.s. government has put a drug kingpin to death and. 52 year old dustin honkin has been convicted of killing 5 people it's the 3rd federal execution carried out in the u.s. and just 4 days same number as conducted over the previous 3 decades. firefighters in siberia are battling massive wildfire is what you've been burning for weeks in the region cities have been badly affected by smoke from the fires while wildfires in siberia aren't unusual scientists say climate change has made them more frequent and more intense. russian officials say using aircraft to find fire is currently burning across an area of some 120 square kilometers. on the ground the situation is said to be improving but it's flow from under control. as for today the wildfire situation remains difficult and we have an emergency situation in the region. not you

beachfront home owners north of sydney australia have been ordered to evacuate with their houses in danger of collapsing into the sea severe storms have whipped up waves that have washed away parts of the coast some residents are hoping to save their homes by propping them up with concrete pylons. the us government has put a drug kingpin to death in iowa 52 year old dustin honkin have been convicted of killing 5 people it's the 3rd federal execution carried out in the us in just 4 days the same number as conducted over the previous 3 decades. every year there's a feeding frenzy in south africa as large shoals of sardines migrate up the eastern coast followed by millions of birds seals and sharks the annual sardine run also provides an opportunity for locals to feast on the riches the waters have to offer it's a particularly popular pastime this year because of the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus crisis our correspondent i've been increased reports. this war i was in so if sardines a paradise for sharks and fishermen they pulled the catches shore with the huge difference. to our

sydney. australia's second—most—populous city, back into stay—at—home lockdown. cases in the last 2a hours, the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic, and for the next six weeks, 5 million people in melbourne and in an area just north of it are expected to remain in their houses except for necessary purposes, such as going to work, giving care, or shopping for essentials. the state premier daniel andrews has said without reimposing the restrictions, the situation could spiral out of control. this is, i know, further than we went last time but we are in many respects in a more precarious, challenging, and potentially tragic position now than we were some months ago. mr andrews blamed a sense of complacency among some for the current covid—19 spike, adding that nine tower blocks will remain in full lockdown until testing is completed. previously, most cases had involved returning overseas travellers in quarantine. now, more than 80% are caused by community transmission. for the first time in 100 years, the border between victoria and new south wale

the supreme court in sydney australia order protesters to halt plans of a protest because of the coronavirusal of nervousness in new south wales about what is happening in victoria and the big spike we have seen so thejudge the big spike we have seen so the judge in the supreme court said it was just too risky for those protests to go a head and cited what is happening in victoria and those hundreds and those hundreds and hundreds of cases we have seen on a daily basis as part of the reason for blocking permission for the protests. despite the low number of community transmission in new south wales the state was on a knife edge, as he put it, for an escalation so protests planned for choose ——— tuesday are not authorised. will people come out onto the street anyway? the organisers have been rallynig and standing outside the supreme court say they will appeal against that decision and regardless of what happens, it will go ahead and people will take to the streets. this is almost the same scenario that happened more than a month ago in earlyjune when protests we re ago in earlyjune when prote

right, well, kind of related a little bit to what we have just been discussing, let's go to sydney, australiaour question? my question is, how can we help women in their lives with the emotional support that they need at this time? right, alexander shulman, another how question, and as you said, resources are tight because everybody and everything is crying out for more. but there is a lot of mental stress and emotional stress for women, particularly during this pandemic. yeah, i was curious to know, did you mean on a personal level? is that what you were asking? yeah, i was asking on a level of i think it's this kind of period of time which is probably impacting, you know, mothers, daughters, just women in our communities globally. and i think sometimes we can kind of forget more or less it creates this undue pressure on them, kind of like being the nurturers of our society. so, that is why i kind of framed that question like, what can we do, as sons or fathers orjust people, or families, globally, to kind of ensure that the women in their lives are ok? well, i would say on a very personal l

sydney. australia's second—most—populous city, back into stay—at—home lockdown. 2a hours, the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic, and for the next six weeks, 5 million people in melbourne and in an area just north of it are expected to remain in their houses except for necessary purposes, such as going to work, giving care, or shopping for essentials. the state premier daniel andrews has said without reimposing the restrictions, the situation could spiral out of control. this is, i know, further than we went last time but we are in many respects in a more precarious, challenging, and potentially tragic position now than we were some months ago. mr andrews blamed a sense of complacency among some for the current covid—19 spike, adding that nine tower blocks will remain in full lockdown until testing is completed. previously, most cases had involved returning overseas travellers in quarantine. now, more than 80% are caused by community transmission. for the first time in 100 years, the border between victoria and new south wales is set to close,

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at harvard law school at the harvard kennedy school of government, at the college of law in sydney, australia, and the university of rome. in 1980, president carter appointed justice breyer to the united states court of appeals for the first circuit, and he was the chief judge there from 1990-1994. in 1994, president clinton nominated him as an associate justice of the supreme court to succeed justice blackman. he took his seat on august 3, 1994. he has also been a prolific writer, not just of judicial opinions. many books, wonderful articles, on a very wide range of important legal subjects, both domestic and international. his most recent book, the court of the world, was published last september. in a nutshell, in my view, and i am sure you will agree with me, just as justice breyer's career is powerful evidence of the enduring contributions that a single individual can make to society when he or she is blessed with a keen intellect and an innate sense of decency, a dedication to the rule of law, and a determination to make our country and our world a better place. it is my great honor and

he joins me live from sydney, australia. this is troubling, when we realize that authorities really crack down recently to try to contain this virus. >> it is troubling, natalie. the people at the most risk, the brave doctors, when they get sick, and they can't go to work, that means that people can't get the care they need when in hospital. the government is worried about that. it's equally worried about the spread of the virus into those elderly care settings. residents who are frail a lot of the time, residents who are there for a reason, already, because they need extra protection, the virus gets in there. and it's very, very difficult to put out that flame, natalie. and some of the deaths we're seeing in victoria, have been linked to the age care settings. >> how successful have authorities been at keeping the outbreak in victoria and not allowing it to spread into the rest of the country? >> well, natalie, the border between victoria and new south wal wales, the two most popular states have been closed for a couple of

for more on this, let's bring in angus watson from sydney, australia. agnus, what's the latest?> reporter: as you mentioned, kim, the 300 workers diagnosed was extremely worrying for everybody in the state of victoria because of costs and we worry about their health. also, what happens when you take out 3,000 brave doctors and nurses from the health care system. and that system starts to buckle and they are not getting the help they need and it becomes more difficult. one other thing is everybody is worried about is the spread of the virus in age settings where people are frail and they need hem help. and the virus there is ripping through there and causing deaths, kim. >> you mentioned the spread locally. but how does that fit into the big picture? have they managed to contain it to victoria state? >> reporter: well, kim, i think people in victoria might be thinking that they're fighting a little bit of a lonely fight here in australia against coronavirus. hundreds of cases by the day in that state. everywhere else is recording pretty good numbers. here in sydney, we had 15 cas

. >>> i'm angus watson, in sydney, australia.a has suffered the worst day of the coronavirus as they try to stamp out the largest wave in melbourne. the curve is shooting upwards despite residents being on lockdown for over two weeks now. the state has been completely cut off from the rest of the country in an effort to try to stop the spread. the australian economy is shrinking because of the pandemic. over 900,000 people here without jobs now. the worst figures in over two decades. >> our thanks to or reporters all around the world. >>> millions of americans remain out of work as the pandemic worsens. now they face losing a key life line, the enhanced unemployment benefits they have been receiving are set to expire. vanessa yurkevich with much more on this. this was so crucial to a lot of people. really kept them afloat for months and months, but folks are about to lose it now. >> that's right, john. it's really happening at the worst time. in just two weeks americans who are unemployed are going to be losing the extra $600 a w

in australia has been some pretty vicious weather recently on the coast of new south wales sydney has had windy weather and rain and it's no surprise when you see that circulation which is a giant sink of the scale of australia which stretches from sydney rather way down to the northern shores of due zealand the next frontal system that's where a 3 person will be wind and a bit of rain for that part of australia to sydney itself well the forecast is certainly a windy one for a couple of days yet and the rains to say stretched across to the north on to new zealand so all current is going to rather wet wednesday whereas wanting to and enjoying the cold sunshine. in the us civil war brought slavery to an end date and there is a strong possibility that the very fruits that you're eating could have been brought to your table by in a slave individual right here in the land of the free housing is upon lakas tricked into emigrating and trapped by on scrupulous property and. became slaves because of slavery and 21st century evil and how does iraq. root. for. hello again i'm the stars here toda

scientists and pro-democracy campaign and he's usually based in hong kong but joins us from sydney in australia thank you for being with us joseph how concerned are you that the national security law is now also being used to crack down on online communications. we are very concerned we are very worried because the whole piece of legislation is designed to exact need to create a deterrence you found that definitions are very ate and your formulation is followed the chinese neagle farmer to defend the traditional hong kong common law farmer to the distinction dog to difficult to make that distinction between freedom of speech freedom of articulation and chill action is very frightening at the moment this law is soon to be a serious threat against tolls from the pro-democracy who intends to run into coming not just to come to you elections against olds who would like to organize a new goal. in against olds who would like to engage in lobbying in search of support from the international community especially from the western governments they're very nervous of good of good legislation you're seriou

australia's second most popular week of lockdown.nto its sixth but it is unclear whether this will be enough time to contain an outbreak not only seems te.be getting wo bbc news, sydneyy: interesting. australia, europe here, in the united states, the message is the same. masks, social disncing, and the testing in contact tracing. for anyone checking the news this morning in america, you would have seen two headlines back to back. t,fi the u.s. economy shrank at a shocking rate in the latest quarter, contracting nearly 33% on an annual basis. that news was followed ba tweet from president trump who claimed that because of mail-in voting, the 2020 election will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election ine istory. andoated the idea of delaying the vote. which, to be clear, he does not have t authority to d that political drama played out in washingtosaac turned it to atlanta, georgia where a hero of american movement was laid to rest. here is our editor. reporter: at the ebenezer baptist church and atlanta, georgia, three bay -- three former presidents gaed to bid farewell to johnewis, a hero of the civil rights movement and the man who came to be known as the con

california, sydney, australia.i think decide to introduce my wonderful wife and teaching assistant, miss rosie. rosie, eight seconds. keep going. push—ups. come on. come on. bye—bye. seconds. keep going. push—ups. come on. come on. bye-bye. love you! goodbye everybody, take care. hasn't he done a greatjob? we will be talking tojoe in about an hour. you are watching bbc breakfast. transport secretary grant shapps will bejoining us in a short time. it is 7:26am. we have the weather this morning. with carol. if you are following carolyn social media she has made us all feel very hungry by putting the brea kfast all feel very hungry by putting the breakfast they brought her at blenheim pallara ‘s this morning. you have got a sense of that hour wait —— tim pallas. you have got a sense of that hour wait -- tim pallas. in your dreams, dan. this is not a prop. this is a beautiful aerial view of where i am in blenheim palace. this is the italian garden. we have unprecedented access to it. it is the private garden of the 12t

sydney, australia power plant that i was talking about before. i don't think that we can leave public bank to decide at this point. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you. >> clerk: that is the only caller. >> chair fewer: okay, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, is there any more business today. >> clerk: no further business today. >> chair fewer: thank you very much everyone. we are adjourned. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have

certainly helped create the world's atmosphere many millions of years ago and in a first for australia, a sydney one of the scientists involved — dr alex thomson, manager of deep green biotech hub at the university of technology sydney. it sounds fascinating. how exactly do you do this? it is utilising one of the oldest technologies we have on the planet and that is photosynthesis to algae was the thing that gave our planet and atmosphere and what we are doing here is capturing that carbon dioxide that comes off when the beer is fermented, piping it through tubes and feeding it to algae which sucks off the carbon dioxide and produces oxygen and then we have a useful stuff that we can turn into other things. so it absorbs... what quantities? because it is a microbrewery. as doesn't produce billions of pints? what we have at the moment is a prototype system and it is incredibly effective. what goes to prove is that we are able to utilise these types of systems in many different industries. this brewery being one of them, and we are able to make that. mount henry is the name of the brewery. so we h

sydney. welcome to "daybreak: australia." tech shares push u.s. markets lower for the first time in three days, the nasdaq posting the largest decline in weeks. microsoft and apple leading the losses. the coronavirus continues to set unwelcome records. cases surged across several u.s. states, while hong kong and tokyo report new high marks, and india considers new lockdowns. wall street banks capitalizing on the federal reserve's extraordinary rescue measures with record profits. shery: let's take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. u.s. futures are coming online flat, after we saw losses in the regular session after two days of gains. we had investors continue to rotate out of this year's top performers. zero .7%, fell about with microsoft and apple leading the losses. we had technology, the biggest decliner on the s&p 500 as well. when it comes after hours trading, netflix also slumping on disappointing results. we had a couple of elements factoring into the market resurgence of virus cases -- factoring into the market, resurgence o

australia is next. ♪ shery: good evening from bloomberg's world headquarters. i'm shery ahn in new york. haidi: i'm haidi stroud-watts in sydney "daybreak: australia." u.s. stocks finished higher on fears that the coronavirus may hit any economic recovery. those concerns overshadowing a big jump in payroll numbers. global infections continuing to rise, with u.s. cases jumping the most in almost two months.

let's get more from our sydney correspondence. if australiaast 30 years of growth, growth, growth, we can expect much of the world to have to suck it up as well. given australia's covid—19 numbers have been pretty low relative to other countries, we have had about 13,000 confirmed cases, more than 125 people have died. these numbers as we say are low by international standards, yet still the lockdown, the various disease control measures that have seen many businesses closed and hundreds of thousands of people losing theirjobs really thousands of people losing their jobs really has thousands of people losing theirjobs really has inflicted enormous economic damage. if you look at the numbers, they are, as the australian treasurerjosh frydenberg said, truly i watering. in the last financial year the budget deficit here was more than 60 billion us dollars, and in the next 12 months, that deficit is expected to more than double, and it is worth noting as well that in the last financial year for the pandemic australia had been forecasting a small s

sydney. welcome to "daybreak: australia." tech shares push u.s.ower for the first time in three days, the nasdaq posting the largest decline in weeks. microsoft and apple leading the losses. the coronavirus continues to set unwelcome records.

sydney. welcome to "daybreak: australia." u.s. stocks finished higher on fears that the coronavirus may hit any economic recovery. those concerns overshadowing a big jump in payroll numbers. global infections continuing to rise, with u.s. cases jumping the most in almost two months. texas is making face masks mandatory, while florida yet another record. the u.s. senate approves sanctions on chinese officials over hong kong, as the u.k. says it will not back down on a path to citizenship for around 3 million of the city's residents. shery: let's get a look at how markets are trading. we see u.s. futures coming online down 0.1%. we had gains across the board. you saw the s&p 500 higher by 0.5%. materials and energy were up more than 1%. we had more positive economic data, better-than-expected jobs numbers, although the optimism was tempered a bit by concerns about rising weekly jobless claims. to composedid manage again a record high. take a look at what oil is doing, still above the $40 a barrel level, after seeing its highest fini

here's shaimaa khalil in sydney on a pivotal moment in australia's history.th the queen knew. involvement in that dismissal, what the queen knew. now we know that she did not know if that decision before it happened and that sirjohn had made the final decision on his own. in these letters, he says that he has not informed the queen, he hadn't actually warned the premise or that he he hadn't actually warned the prime minister that he was going to sack him because he was worried that the prime minister himself was calling for his removal. so, while there isn't a really big bombshell of palace involvement in the dismissal, i think it's a really, really intriguing insight, if you will come into those correspondence at a time of high tension, but also, if you will, a tug—of—war at the top of australian politics at the time. this had shocked notjust the australian political scene, but people in general at the time because it was at the heart of the country's constitutional independence. buckingham palace has issued this statement today saying that "throughout her r

towards elsewhere across australia it's hash a fairly calm picture a nice picture temperatures sort of in the mid teens celsius and sunshine beginning to push across into sydney and obstacles into western australia it is very nice indeed and as we go on into thursday that system working its way further south and east across to that south island animals that does mean though the rain and the strong winds are going to be pounding the far west coast has so not surprisingly there are wind warnings in place peat of the south and in fact severe gales could be expected as we go towards the end of the week ok thanks for that jenny talk to you later. scientists say nearly 3000000000 animals were killed or displaced in australia last year by the bush fire season the world wide fun for nature describes it as one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history while koalas became became the face of the crisis it affected nearly every species on the continent many animals that didn't die in the flames faced starvation christopher dickman is a professor of terrestrial ecology of the university of sydney he worked on the estimates he says he was shocked. this really has a

switching out the board here today, the material sector in sydney up 2.4 percent in australia.ur sectors in the green so far in 2020 and we are watching miners today after goldman rated bhp and has a neutral call on rio tinto with anticipated demand recovery along with tightening supply among the positive catalysts. goldman says copper, steel, and cole have the most attractive prospects and valuations are no longer looking to for the sector. they are not expensive on normalized demand metrics. it is the second largest pension fund which has divested from coal producers, whitehaven and new hope, as part of plans to reduce its carbon emissions across investment by 30% 2023. taking a big picture view when it comes to power generation in australia, as you can see on the .ie chart, coal, still king down from 60% in 2018 as contribution from renewable sources rose to 21%. that is compared to 12% in 2018, haidi. wales isw south australia's most populous and energy hungry state and it is moving closer to winning itself off reliance on coal. it will match the capacity of its coal-fired

visas for hong kong residents in australia the chinese embassy in australia has denounced the decision taken to gauge has more from sydney this will no doubt infuriate beijing which will see it as a strongly a trying to meddle in its own internal affairs and we need to remember that china is a strangely its biggest trade partner and throughout this time we've seen heightened temp diplomatic tensions and that has led to huge problems in the agricultural industry with high. beef imports suspended and this has really escalated since. called for i inquire into the origins of coronavirus serbia's government is expected to announce new coronavirus restrictions after the president said that we can curfew may not go ahead thousands of people protested across belgrade for a 2nd over the government's handling of the pandemic the ivory coast prime minister died after collapsing during a cabinet meeting. was 72 he was due to run for president in 3 months time heavy rain is hampering rescue and recovery efforts in southern japan following widespread flooding and landslides at least 59 people have died the u.n. security council has vo

sydney. it is hitting australia pretty hard, and remember, a little over a month ago we were talking about single—digithere i am, and victoria as well. now it is 723 cases in the last 24 hours, that is the state record and a national record of daily increase since the pandemic began. only at the beginning of the week on monday, victoria recorded about 523 cases and at the time, that was the record high, and at the time, health authorities were saying, or were hoping this was going to be the peak and they were hoping to see lower numbers. well, they did see a couple of days of lower numbers but now, this is the highest spike. very concerning as well because a lot of the cases have hit age care facilities but also, one of the worrying trends is that there are cases that are popping up in regional victoria, so outside of metropolitan melbourne and into regional victoria. from midnight tonight, there are some areas in regional victoria that are now not allowed visitors, and now all of victoria, people are going to be required to wear masks when leaving their house so that is from midnight local time on sun

whatever actions are necessary" to bring the situation under control. 0ur sydney correspondent shaimaa khaliljoins me. until recently australia success story australia was regarded asa success story australia was regarded as a little over a month ago, actually. 723 cases, a big blow to the people of melbourne, who are in their third week of their second lockdown. they were hoping it would have worked by now. but the situation is bleak in victoria. now there is a real concern with the rise of cases, with this trajectory, that the country could be headed into a second way. soldiers driving ambulances — a sign of how serious victoria's covid—19 crisis has become, as health workers raced to contain the spread of the virus. there were hopes that the outbreak may have peaked on monday, with over 500 infections recorded. but the latest spike in coronavirus numbers has surpassed that by nearly 200 cases. we have now been in this lockdown now for some weeks. and we are not getting the results we would hope for. and, as a result, the further measures that are taken are certainly necessary. they will come at an impact to the economy, an

us really is most populous states which are virtually the engine rooms of australia's economy roger maynard reporting from sydney good to talk to you. after brazil and the us india is the 3rd worst hit country in this pandemic the government in delhi has started easing restrictions after a 3 month lockdown but the result is that new cases and deaths are rising at their fastest pace since appendix start. after 3 months of lockdown life in new delhi is almost back to normal millions of indians have lost their jobs in the corona crisis now the economy is sputtering back to life but with restaurants and shops open again the coronavirus is also making a comeback. afraid we have to leave our house to make a living but we fear for our lives. many hospitals have reached capacity and the country is scrambling to increase its intensive care units this wedding hall has been filled with hospital beds 12 doctors staff the emergency treatment center. we have around 100 beds here we have patients with mild and less severe symptoms and even some without symptoms that have nowhere else to quarantine. india has ramped up its test

this is the focus of research here in australia at the university of sydney.margaret morris runs a laboratory where rats are fed the kind of junk food that you find in supermarkets for cheap fast food restaurants. arab sperm and choose a range of western foods at the time taken by all of us so we feed our rats make panos chips cakes and biscuits the sorts of foods. eventually file a bill and sheep so we're modeling the western world. the 1st consequence of this diet the rat doubles its food ration as. the animal never seems ishida. but that's not the most surprising outcome. one of our chief interests is the impact of his diet on the animal's memory and we can measure this is early in the rat using a task known as the novel object and novel placed tosk. in this test the researcher places objects in the rat's cage. the animal comes over immediately to examine the. rodents are very curious by nature. once it's completed its examination and memorized its surroundings its temporarily removed we then place the animal in the arena with one object that's been shifted

by professor michael ward, an epidemiologist at the university of sydney, and hejoins us now from there. your research focused on australiaour research focused on australia and in china. just tell us what you found and what conclusions will be drawn. we did research both in china and new south wales in australia. while he founded both situations, i have been northern had winter, we found where there was humidity, it seemed to be driving the cases in both situations. humidity seems to be important in the evolution of covid—19. we found temperature in china and that was in winter. very cold temperatures and in land areas. in australia, we didn't find temperature, we don't have really low temperatures. we think that relative humidity the mind with low temperatures as well. why does humidity play such a strong part in this? from experiment studies, it's shown that when you have low humidity, the aerosols, the droplets in the aerosols when someone's infected with covid—19, they say suspended in the air much longer. so when the air is dry, they stay suspended. given the virus more chance to expose other people. it's really abou

australia." i'm haidi stroud-watts in sydney. we are counting down to the major market opens. shery: good evening from new york. i'm shery ahn. our top stories this hour. jerome powell warns of the worst economic downturn in our lifetime as the fed leaves rates on hold and urges congress to boost fiscal spending. u.s. coronavirus deaths passed 150,000 mark as texas, california and florida see record fatalities. infections spike in china, hong kong and japan as well. hill.tech titans on the the ceos of amazon and alphabet and facebook face a virtual grilling over antitrust. haidi: let's get you started with a check of the markets. u.s. futures opening flat, slightly higher that by .1%. this after we saw u.s. stocks extending gains in the regular session, the dollar declining estate as dovish as possible. the s&p 500 gained more than 1%, adding to the july rally. 11 sectors were higher with tech leading the way. as i mentioned earlier, we are seeing that big tech antitrust showdown in congress ongoing at the moment. nasdaq composite and -- at 1.4% high. at a one-week . the dolla

australia. that has been active, windy, and wet. probably welcome rain or the forecast for sydneywind dies down after friday. we have fine skies after that and the swell will eventually die away altogether. a quiet looking picture for that part of australia. the next frontal system will produce some showers in adelaide and eventually melbourne. perth enjoys a slowly improving situation. it has been very wet in the north part of new zealand. easterly breeze on friday. directly north, and rain has been the story in japan. not so much in the last 24 hours or the next 24 hours, but in china, over the yangtze, flooding. ♪ ♪ top stories here on "al jazeera." the kremlin has denied russian cyber spies are trying to steal research on a possible coronavirus vaccine. the u.k., u.s., and canada say hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking research institutions trying to develop a vaccine. the e.u.'s top court has canceled a data transfer deal between europe and the u.s. over concerns the american government will snoop on people's personal information. the number of

across thailand on up towards vietnam and then tools australia mostly clear and fine now that air pressure that was bringing the great to the coast of sydney vassie is beginning to wind down heading across towards new zealand however the have been weather warnings in place and this is why because that system had some destructive winds and waves and just look at the land erosion here along the coast this is the central coast of new south wales these homes as you can see now really quite precarious integrals that is the downside of the goods. are enjoying as we go through saturday it's an improving picture certainly into sydney we've got more rain heading across the great bite is clearing all the while away from western australia so not a bad day on sunday quite a bit of cloud around but that rain on its way to test mania on sunday. for. tens of thousands of filipino nurses a saving american lives chewing the cud of 19 that they came to the us for a better life but at what cost. one a one east investigates and just. played important role in protecting human. face. to the. we're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour indi